besides Blue Coast Records? I just got an Oppo 95 and it does not support these DSD files (DSF file extension). Have emailed them about this and got some mumbo jumbo about commercially available DSD files via SACD only (?) Looking for some more ammo to entice them to offer a firmware upgrade to support this file type.

DSD files come in two flavors, DSDIFF (aka DIFF) and DSF. Cookie's BlueCoast Records sells both formats, but prefers DSF (as do I) due to better native metadata support. And DSF tags can be edited in popular software like J River.

I have almost 600 SACDs ripped, and they are all DSF (due to metadata support).

Oppo already allows for SACD-R playback (i.e burnt DVD-R's containing SACD ISO's) but won't allow native DSD non-disc file playback...they are an SACD supporter, and anyway the most they would do is to allow DSD file playback on disc is called DSD Disc (a poorly supported disc-based format for playing back authored DSD files like those from Korg recorders, etc.)

Good luck, but I do not think you will succeed in getting Oppo to support non-DRM DSD files. They have already completely dropped support of Blu-ray ISO files, which they once supported as an undocumented feature. They need to protect and maintain their relationships to software producers, including Sony.

As it is, only a tiny handful of gear exists outside pro circles to handle these files. Will there be a groundswell of new gear forthcoming to change that? Don't hold your breath. But, you might have some success via PC playback with them or converting them via PC to hi Rez PCM.

So for me, I can download and play any digital format on my 5400/VSE. And that includes my own 24/96 and, I hope soon, 24/192 live rehearsal and Concert recordings of a group I play in. Really cool, IMO!

"But the Korg Audio Gate software will convert DSD to WAV so you'll loose the benefit of having DSD in the 1st place, surely?"

What I did was to use the Korg Audio Gate software to convert the files to WAV so I could play them. But I kept the original DSD files that I downloaded. Six months later I got a Mytek Stereo192-DSD DAC and now I can listen to the files in their original format.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar